Abstract. Parametric design techniques offer obvious advantages for engineering and manufacturing processes, now architects emerge to apply these methods in their creation of design suggesting solutions at an earlier stage of the process. Through the coupling of architectural design with parametric modelling methods, the paper presents novel techniques that enhance architects' contribution to building processes based on parametric design creation. This allows a deeper comprehension of the design objectives and aids designers in their decisions to find solutions.
Parameters in Design StudiosArchitectural design studios are an essential learning experience for architectural students. Their traditions and proceedings are well established. These studios are, additionally, informed and supplemented by courses and seminars, which can feed into their learning outcomes. Studios go beyond pure skill training and require reflection upon, and the creation of, knowledge. There can be, however, a gap between skills training and the application of knowledge within the studio context. At the final presentation of the work, students my not be able to identify how they arrived to their solution and what were the individual contributors that inform about the design.This tension is also apparent in digital media courses. These present the underlying concepts of architectural design using digital communication tools, but also have to provide training in software skills and other technical subjects (Kvan 2004a). The integration of digital media courses into design studio curricula often fails, because the compound acquisition of skills prevents a deep exploration of design and the theoretical aspects involved. Participants can employ digital media tools within a studio context only long after they have learned subject matters and acquired proficiency in their